N.Y. Penal Law § 180.51: Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree

§ 180.51 Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.

A person is guilty of tampering with a sports contest in the first

degree when, with intent to influence the outcome of a pari-mutuel horse

race:

1. He affects any equine animal involved in the conduct or operation

of a pari-mutuel horse race by administering to the animal in any manner

whatsoever any controlled substance listed in section thirty-three

hundred six of the public health law; or

2. He knowingly enters or furnishes to another person for entry or

brings into this state for entry into a pari-mutuel horse race, or rides

or drives in any pari-mutuel horse race any running, trotting or pacing

horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly under an assumed name, or

deceptively out of its proper class, or that has been painted or

disguised or represented to be any other or different horse, mare,

gelding, colt or filly from that which it actually is; or

3. He knowingly and falsely registers with the jockey club, United

States trotting association, American quarter horse association or

national steeplechase and hunt association a horse, mare, gelding, colt

or filly previously registered under a different name; or

4. He agrees with one or more persons to enter such misrepresented or

drugged animal in a pari-mutuel horse race. A person shall not be

convicted of a violation of this subdivision unless an overt act is

alleged and proved to have been committed by one of said persons in

furtherance of said agreement.

Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree is a class E

felony.